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Topic: Curious about super spam filter (Read 1306 times)

Hello,I'm just curious about the gazillion anti-spam questions when replying to posts, do they eventually go away (after 5 post or something)?The captcha images are almost too obscure to read!Also as this is my second post today, but with no spam questions, would I be right in assuming that I only need to answer them once every day?Is it possible to make the questions less biased to Americans?I was asked how many states there are in the US and I had to look it up (i don't live in the US)

Is there a reason behind this or is the Administrator just hoping to bring about the robot apocolipse :

You only have to deal with the annoying anti-spammer stuff for your first ~2 posts.

Before I implemented the crazy defenses, about 3 spammers got in per day. Believe it or not, spammers still get through all these defenses. But only ~1 per month manages to reach the final step of posting a bad link these days.

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I was asked how many states there are in the US and I had to look it up (i don't live in the US)

lol . . . I was aiming for easy questions that could be easily looked up, but required some minimal level of intelligence to do so

I have a Thai friend who insisted it was 53, and that I should be ashamed of myself that as an American I did not know that.